Yaroslav Mudriy

About the show

In eleventh-century Kiev, Prince Yaroslav tries to govern amid conflict with Novgorod, the Vikings and the Pechenegs. Norwegian Harald falls in love with Yaroslav’s daughter Elizaveta, but Yaroslav insists he first win a kingdom. Yaroslav’s wife Ingigerda conspires with Ulf against him; stonemason Zhureyko discovers the plot and warns the prince, while Ingigerda is sent to a nunnery. Years later, the Pechenegs invade. Mykyta, secretly the imprisoned governor Kosnyatyn’s son, returns with Djemma and reveals his identity during the crisis. Yaroslav defeats the Pechenegs, though Mykyta dies defending Kiev, and the people praise their ruler.